Invasive plant species can potentially exert competitive or facilitative effects on insect pollination services of native species. Factors that influence these effects include the degree of shared pollinator species, ...

This paper draws on the experiences of two graduate level curriculum theory classes taught at different teacher education institutions in the United States. As teacher educators and curriculum theorists, we invest in ...

This article explores a discussion strategy utilized in a research-based classroom to help promote participation of all students in classroom discussion. The article will establish why the strategy was employed, how best ...

Travel provides students with multiple opportunities to learn about people,
places, and the world around them. At times, students are given
opportunities to travel causing them to be absent from the classroom. This
manuscript ...

Although there are many alternative schools that strive for the successful education for their students, negative images of alternative schools persist. While some alternative schools are viewed as “idealistic havens,” ...

The current educational context, particularly with the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, calls for evidence-based measurable student learning outcomes. Increasingly, teachers feel that opportunities for their ...

In this article, I engage in exploring how teacher action research can be theorized as professional development that contributes to the teacher’s ongoing, ontological growth as a being and a professional. I approach teacher ...

This exploratory qualitative study serves as a beginning to the discussion of what
teachers of history do well. This study involved the interviewing and reviewing of materials from secondary level teachers of history who ...

To explore what students know about utilizing primary sources in instruction and offer methods of how to use it, Project History Methods was a workshop instituted at Kansas State University during the Spring 2009 semester. ...

Between February 2008 and June 2013, at least according to U.S. national media, twenty-seven young men and two young women, ranging in ages from 11 to 19, committed suicide based on their perceived or actual gender or ...

In the current era of “zero tolerance”, disciplinary practices including punishment, expulsion, physical and psychological surveillance, and confinement, are a major part of resistant students’ lived experiences. This ...

Currently, there is a resurgence of interests in phenomenology in education. This article sheds light on the importance of hermeneutical phenomenology in teaching and learning based on the lived experience of a Sioux Indian ...

Visual–spatial ability is a multifaceted component of intelligence that has predictive validity for future achievement in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations. Although identification and ...